Mind & Brain
Don't Watch That Clumsy Player Too Closely
Expert Athletes May Perform Worse After Watching Novice Actions
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Mind & Brain
The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning
Studying related skills or concepts in parallel is a surprisingly effective way to train your brain
Mind & Brain
Bonobo Peeps May Be Necessary Language Precursors
Animal communication studies have shown only fixed vocalizations, such as alarm cries. But Bonobo chimps appear to have a call that has different meanings in different contexts ...
Mind & Brain
Who Benefits Most from PTSD Treatment?
Although several therapies have shown some success in helping people exposed to traumatic experiences, not everyone recovers equally well
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Fats in the Brain May Help Explain How Human Intelligence Evolved
High-level brain areas accumulated far more changes in lipids than the brains of chimpanzees
Which Character Strengths Are Most Predictive of Well-Being?
If you seek high well-being, your best bets are gratitude and love of learning.
Mind & Brain
How the Brain Purges Bad Memories
A brain circuit has been found that allows us to forget fear and anxiety
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Can We Spot Soldiers at Risk for PTSD?
Telltale differences in the brain and immune system before deployment may predict which soldiers are most likely to succumb later on
Mind & Brain
What All the Screaming Is about
An analysis of the acoustical characteristics of screams found that the sounds are unusually rough, that is, they rapidly change in frequency, which has an alarming effect on the listener's brain ...
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Motor and Sensory Symptoms Help Predict Who Will Develop Lewy Body Dementia
The second-most common form of dementia has been difficult to study without a better understanding of early symptoms
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Hidden Hearing Loss from Everyday Noise
Jackhammers, concerts and other common noisemakers may cause irreparable damage to our ears in unexpected ways
Mind & Brain
The Neural Seat of the Thatcher Face Illusion
The Thatcher illusion, discovered 35 years ago by vision scientist Peter Thompson of the University of York in the UK, was essential to current knowledge of face perception. Scientists already knew that faces were difficult to recognize upside down, but the Thatcher illusion went further to demonstrate that the brain does not merely process and store representations of whole faces, but it recognizes isolated facial features such as the mouth and eyes. ...
Neuroscience
What Makes a Human Brain Unique
Experiment compares the way monkey and human brains respond to abstract information
Neuroscience
When We Read, We Recognize Words as Pictures and Hear Them Spoken Aloud
Words are not encoded in the brain by their meaning but rather by simpler attributes such as sound and shape
Health
Antibody Drugs for Alzheimer's Show Glimmers of Promise
After a string of failed trials, drugs that target protein build-up in the brain appear to slow disease progress
Neuroscience
Poverty Disturbs Children's Brain Development and Academic Performance
Delayed brain development predicts lower tests scores in low-income children
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Convicts with Untrustworthy, Aggressive Faces more Likely to Get Death Penalty
There is no governmental institution more dedicated to rational thought and fairness than the justice system, but a new study shows that illusory facial perception is clouding the minds of our judges and juries, who can potentially decide to kill people based on their appearance. ...
Health
A Plan to Fix the Obesity Crisis
Science has identified four steps to losing weight that can improve the odds of success
Mind & Brain
Important Link between the Brain and Immune System Found
The new line of communication prompts rethinking of neurologic disease
Mind & Brain
Like Humans, Apes Are Susceptible to Spin
Our preference for positive framing may be hardwired
